The present study sought to define neighborhood context by examining relationships among data from city-level administrative
databases at the level of the census block group. The present neighborhood investigation included 1,801 block groups comprising
a large, northeastern metropolitan area. Common factor analyses and multistage, hierarchical cluster analyses yielded two
dimensions (i.e., Social Stress, Structural Danger) and two typologies (i.e., Racial Composition, Property Structure Composition)
of neighborhood context. Simultaneous multiple regression analyses revealed small but statistically significant associations
between neighborhood variables and academic outcomes for public school kindergarten children.
Keywords Neighborhood context - Administrative data - Block group